| 1616 | Hey House built at Holcombe | Built by Robert Browne and located on Moor Bottom Road |
| 1712 | Dundee Presbyterian Chapel opens | |
| 1760s | Fulling mill built at Dearden Clough, Edenfield | Known as Dearden Clough Mill |
| 1770 | In Edenfield both White Horse and Pack Horse were functioning | White Horse later became the Horse and Jockey. Pack Horse became Topham's Arms in 1986 and in 1991 became an Italian Restaurant. |
| 1783 | Grant family have first sight of Ramsbottom | |
| 1783 | Peel and Yates build a factory | It was water-powered and situated on the Old Ground |
| 1787 - 1790 | Chatterton Mill built | First used for fulling wool |
| 1789 | Peel Bridge built | Built by Peel and Yates to connect their mill at Old Ground with Bury - Haslingden turnpike via Peel Brow |
| 1789 | Peel Brow laid out | Linked the town with the turnpike. I don't know when the first houses were built on this steep road but certainly some were much later. An OS map surveyed in the 1890s shows houses at the bottom end but not the top. (Modern street maps also show houses missing near the upper end as they were pulled down to make way for a new motorway) |
| 1790s (late) | Bolton Road West constructed | |
| 1792 | Dearden Clough Lower Mill built | |
| 1792 | Coach and Horses (Edenfield) built | Now the "Three Sisters" |
| 19/06/1797 | Act passed for Edenfield - Little Bolton turnpike | |
| 1801 | Edenwood Mill built | by Lawrence Rostron |
| circa 1801 | Rose Bank Printworks built Plunge Mill built |
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| 1812 | Lumb Carr Road constructed | from Holcombe Brook to Holcombe |
| 1817 | Nuttall Hall built for John Grant | |
| 1821 | Chatterton Mill taken over by Thomas Aitken | Under him became a cotton mill powered by a waterwheel 14 ft wide and just over that in diameter. By 1826 was weaving as well as spinning used 46 newly installed power looms. |
| 1825 | Market Place Methodist first built | |
| 26/04/1826 | Chatterton Riots | A mob of about 3-4000 went to Edenfield to destroy power looms. 58 looms were destroyed at Bridge Mill and John Rostron was clubbed. At Chatterton they were read the Riot Act by William Grant (a JP). The rioters broke into the mill and looms were destroyed but at least five were killed when the soldiers opened fire. On the same day 38 looms were destroyed at Robin Road Mill in Summerseat. |
| 1828 | Grant's Tower erected | at Top o' th' Hoof |
| 1830 | Sale of Beer Act | Allowed any householder assessed for Poor Rate to apply for a licence to sell beer in his house for consumption on or off the premises. There were quite a number of these beer houses in Ramsbottom and Edenfield. John Simpson in his book on Edenfield says there were 9 in the village by 1841. |
| 1830s | Rostron Arms opens | Moved to a more imposing building in the Market Place in 1840 |
| 1832 | Irwell Vale Mill built | Became a soap mill in late 1950s |
| 1832-4 | Building of St Andrew's church | Built by William Grant as a Presbyterian foundation |
| 1835 | Bury New Road built | This route to the Haslingden - Bury turnpike had a less steep gradient than Peel Brow. |
| 1836 | Patmos Methodist founded | |
| 1838 | First installment of Nicholas Nickleby appears. | Charles Dickens claimed, in preface to a later edition, that the Cheeryble Brothers were based on real people. Assumed to be the Grant brothers. |
| 1842 | Rioting | In a trade depression gangs of workers roam the streets and bring to a halt at some mills (eg Ewood Bridge Mill) |
| 1842 | Rev Matthew Wilson appointed curate at Edenfield | Unlike his predecessors he lived in the village until his death in 1870. He bacame its first vicar in 1865. |
| 1845 | Ramsbottom Cricket Club formed | by Stead Bros |
| 1846 | Ramsbottom station opens | Ceased to be manned in 1968 and passenger services ended in 1972 |
| 1847 | Rowlands Wesleyan Chapel built | |
| 1847 | Walmersley House built | In 1886 became the Robinson Kay Home for Incurable Gentlewomen |
| 1848 | St John, Shuttleworth, consecrated | |
| 1850 | Stubbins Vale Mill built | |
| 1850 | St Paul's consecrated | |
| 1852 | Edenfield's first Post Office opens | |
| 1852 | Peel Tower erected | |
| 1854 | Ramsbottom Gas Works established | at Stubbins |
| 1856 | Foundation of what later became known as Greenmount United Reformed Church. | Ralph Rooney (b.1862) became a Sunday School teacher here in 1882 and served until 1930. |
| 1859 | Edenfield Industrial and Provident Society formed | This was the "Co-op" or Co-operative movement. Shortly after foundation it moved into newly built premises. |
| 1860 | Hope Mill built at Edenfield | George Alty took it over in 1880 and it was used for weaving towels. He ran till his death in 1917. The mill closed in 1967. |
| 1861 | Edenfield Brewery opened by Thomas Mercer | In his book about Edenfield John Simpson puts on record the opinion of a local man (in 1908 when the concern was out of Mercer's hands): "The ale brewed by this firm is not well liked, it being of a very purgative nature, as to be known to the old 'topers' of the district as 'Shitten Breeches' " |
| 1862-3 | Cotton famine | Blockade of American ports, and hence a shortage of raw material, led to the closure of many mills and much unemployment. A very hard time for many in Ramsbottom, Tottington, and Edenfield. |
| 1864 | Ramsbottom Local Board of Health formed | |
| 1865 | Edenfield becomes a parish (ecclesiastical) | |
| 1867 | Founding of Bank Lane Baptist, Shuttleworth | |
| 1868 | Opening of Stubbins Congregational Day School | The old building closed in 1970 |
| 1869 | St Andrew's transferred to Anglican Church | Because of the religious leanings of William Grant, nephew of the William Grant who founded the church. The Presbyterian congregation had to move out. At first they used the building in Dundee Lane. |
| 1872-3 | Building of St Andrew's Presbyterian Church | This was to house the congregation ejected from the other St Andrew's so for a time there were 2 churches with the same name. This one had a spire and stood at the corner of Kay Brow and Bolton Street. |
| 1876 | New Jerusalem Church opens | The first Swedenborgian chapel was built in 1831 |
| 1882 | Opening of Holcombe Brook branch line (railway) | Work began in 1878 |
| 1883 | Area of Ramsbottom Local Board of Health increased by the addition of parts of Tottington Higher End and Elton. Also part of Walmersley-with-Shuttleworth. | |
| 1886 | Britannia Ropeworks set up | at Edenfield |
| 1894 | First electric lights in Edenfield | at Bridge Mill |
| 1894 | Ramsbottom Urban District (RUD) formed Tottington Lower End dissolved |
RUD covered area of old Ramsbottom Local Board of Health Parts of Tottington Lower End not previously transferred to Ramsbottom or Bury became Tottington Urban District, together with part of Elton township. Some information on Administrative Areas of Ramsbottom |
| 1899 | Tottington Mill taken over by Calico Printers Association. | The mill was taken on by Joshua Knowles in 1821 and members of the family continued to be associated with the mill as managers after this take-over. Two years later it was employing some 450 workers. It was mostly closed in 1928. This and some other items have been taken from Ken Craven's booklet on the History of Greenmount United Reformed Church. |
| 13/11/1899 | Opening of Cottage hospital in Nuttall Lane | Known as the Aitken Memorial and Jubilee Hospital it was funded by Mrs May Aitken and replaced an earlier one set up in a converted house in Dundee Lane in 1896. The 'Jubilee' refers to the Jubilee of Queen Victoria. |
| 1900 | Rose Bank Mill bought by Turnbull & Stockdale Tolls over Peel Bridge ended |
by 1931 had trebled in size |
| 1901 | Peel Brow Board School opens | |
| 1902 | First car appears in Edenfield
Pilgrims' Cross memorial placed on moors behind Holcombe |
A large block with an inscription and another block to act as a base were transported by horse and cart. They were placed at the site of an earlier cross. The cross was on the route take by pilgrims on their way to Whalley Abbey. |
| 1903 | Hazelhurst Council School erected | |
| 1904 | Greenmount Street becomes Brandlesholme Road. | |
| 1908-9 | Chatterton Weaving Shed built | |
| 1910 | Empire Picture Palace built Electric power made available to Ramsbottom consumers |
Closed 1962; burned down 1978 Provided by Lancashire Electric Power Co. In 1913 there were 85 consumers (3830 by 1939) |
| 1913 | Edenfield Brewery Closes Trolley buses make their appearance |
Route from Edenfield through Nimble Nook, Stubbins, Chatterton Lane, Ramsbottom, Holcombe Brook |
| 1921 | Ocean Chemical Works starts operations | At one time the only cyanide making plant in Britain. Later made alkali for bleaching. |
| 1923 | Ramsbottom Urban District Council's first bus service | Rawtenstall station to Bury tram terminus at Walmersley |
| 1926 | Half-hourly bus service Edenfield - Ramsbottom - Bury St Andrew's Presbyterian Demolished |
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| 1927 | St Philip's, Stubbins consecrated | |
| 1928 | Nuttall Bridge collapses Nuttall Hall donated with 15 acres by AT Porritt to people of Ramsbottom to become Nuttall Park |
Only replaced by a footbridge |
| 1933 | Part of Bury Borough added to RUD Part of Tottington Urban District added to Bury Borough |
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| 1937 | Holcombe Hunt kennels move from Holcombe to Kirklees | |
| 1940 | Greenmount area took about 250 pupils as evacuees from Notre Dame High School in Guernsey | Most were boarded and taught at Hollymount. They were returned home in 1945. This and some other items have been taken from Ken Craven's booklet on the History of Greenmount United Reformed Church. |
| 22/09/1944 | Collapse of Grant's Tower | |
| 1952 | Last passenger train on Holcombe Brook branch line | |
| 1956 | Diesel trains introduced on Bury - Bacup service | |
| 1966 | Closure of Chatterton Weaving Shed Closure of Stubbins to Accrington railway line |
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| 1967 | Work begins on building of Stubbins County Primary School | Replaces, in 1970, the old Stubbins Congregational Day School |
| 1969 | Edenfield by-pass opens | |
| 1971 | New Jerusalem Church demolished | |
| 1973 | Passenger rail services to Rawtenstall end | |
| 1974 | Ramsbottom UDC dissolved | Most becomes part of Bury Metropolitan Borough within Greater Manchester. Some of the northern parts become part of Rossendale (within Lancashire). Area of Tottington UDC also becomes part of Bury |
| 1978 | Rowland Wesleyan Chapel demolished Dundee Presbyterian Chapel demolished |
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| 1979 | Stubbins Vale Mill demolished | |
| 1987 | East Lancashire Railway Preservation Society reopen the Bury - Ramsbottom Line | Continued to Rawtenstall in 1991 |
| 2001 | Britannia Ropeworks close | Britain's last cotton rope manufacturer |
Last update 18/07/2004